Get Your Premium Membership

Best Ravine Poems

Below are the all-time best Ravine poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ravine poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

Read more of this work...
© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ravine, horror,
Form: Rhyme



Promises and Wishes
Wishing Well by Juke55 @ Deviant Art



I circle from pale to shade,
countless steps
around the abandoned well.
Wasted wishes rest 
in dried-up depths, 
we perish
in its hollows....

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, betrayal, feelings, heartbroken, trust,
Form: Free verse
Little Puff Puff and the Magic Castle- Part 2
Thus we follow little Puff Puff brave and true,
For the Castle of Magic was within her view…
She will journey far under the skies of blue,
When...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, 1st grade, character, children,
Form: Rhyme
They Bless the Seed
A gorge, ravine, the deepest pit
                   ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, emotions, feelings, how i
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Day After Christmas
On the day after Christmas, they started appearing,
cast out of houses, stripped of their finery,
lying crooked in the gutter, garbage bags flanking.

My brothers and I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, childhood, christmas, death,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member The Black Hills Wept For Thee
The Black Hills wept for Thee

East of the Black Hills of South Dakota, 
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota, 
Part...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, betrayal, blessing, children, december,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Within the Fog Distant Mountains Strain
“Within the fog the distant mountains strain
Bruised in shades lavender and forest green
Each angle decomposing ~  ~  ~ in the rain”

While dreary dawn,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, morning, nature,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Desperate Hope
Vacantly staring into the night sky
She saw big bellied clouds drifting away
Are they fleeing away from the luminous moon? 
Or mercilessly driven out
After being robbed...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, angst, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Have a Raccoon Dream
I dream that tonight I am a raccoon
And it is here in this body that I store the notion
That my sadness will last forever,
In the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, animalsdream, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Giving Thanks
The water rushed by pulling at me as I struggled to hold onto the moss covered
rocks, but they were slippery and my hands to not...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, faith, nature, water,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Bit of Humour For Sunday
SIR CONRAD

The great explorer Sir Conrad Justine 
Disappeared and was never again seen
Got too near the edge
Slipped on the ledge
Fell two thousand feet in to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, humor,
Form: Limerick
To Belong
"The streams are my veins" ~ by Constance La France

I feel
I belong to
the pellucid stream that
gently swerves through the rocks as I
stroll leisurely along the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, nature,
Form: Rictameter
The Raven
On a barren mountain top,
boulders gray and strewn with rocks,
thermal winds that rose and dropped,
sat the Raven, head half-cocked.

The Raven watched the butterfly
as it softly...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, allegory, animals, nature, peace
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rambling Poetry
Poetry is tangerine and other potent or poisonous colors.
It is the breath you feel at the nape of your neck and
the strong caress of flesh...

Read more of this work...
Categories: ravine, poetry, writing,
Form: Prose
Les Miserable
Les Miserable 

I walked and walked down a steep ravine and came across
a village has forgotten by time by a road that evaded dwellings
A track...

Read more of this work...
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ravine, absence, allusion, angst, animal,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things